THE COSMOLOGICAL CONSTANT PROBLEM AND KALUZA–KLEIN THEORY

DOI10.1142/S0218271801001396zbMATH Open1155.83361arXivgr-qc/0104045MaRDI QIDQ3376524FDOQ3376524

P. S. Wesson, H. Liu

Publication date: 23 March 2006

Published in: International Journal of Modern Physics D (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We present technical results which extend previous work and show that the cosmological constant of general relativity is an artefact of the reduction to 4D of 5D Kaluza-Klein theory (or 10D superstrings and 11D supergravity). We argue that the distinction between matter and vacuum is artificial in the context of ND field theory. The concept of a cosmological ``constant (which measures the energy density of the vacuum in 4D) should be replaced by that of a series of variable fields whose sum is determined by a solution of ND field equations in a well-defined manner.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/gr-qc/0104045

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Kaluza-Klein and other higher-dimensional theories (83E15)

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